arxivcs.CV2026-07-08
Discovering Geometric Biases in 3D Face Reconstruction: A Curvature-Aware Spectral Framework for Fairness Evaluation
Veronika Shilova, Emmanuel Malherbe, Giovanni Palma, Panagiotis-Alexandros Bokaris, Laurent Risser, Jean-Michel Loubes
3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) remain the standard parametric shape priors for many state-of-the-art 3D face reconstruction algorithms. However, as these models are derived from a finite number of 3D face samples, they inherit the morphological biases of their training data, potenti…